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The shadows of Sergoth is available, a dungeon crawler for Amstrad CPC

05/06/2018 - 14:00Genesis8

One of the most waited games The Shadows of Sergoth is available as today in no less than 3 languages : french, spanish and english. It's a dungeon crawler game for Amstrad CPC 6128.

One of the programmers, Chris94, did 2 videos of the making off (french with english subtitles) :

Source : CPCWiki

Category : game

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Galactic Tomb by ESP Soft for Amstrad CPC is available

05/05/2018 - 20:08Genesis8

Announced in April 2016 by ESP Soft, Galactic Tomb is now available, with music by McKlain.

Source : CPCWiki

Category : game

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A platform Amstrad CPC game by Tomas Penalver : Try to run away, after El Concurso

04/25/2018 - 22:13Genesis8

I saw on Amstrad.ES that Tomas Penalver wrote El Concurso (adventure game). This time still in 2017, he also wrote a platform game : Try to run away.

Source : Twitter

Category : game

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Arcade Game Designer v0.6 for Amstrad CPC by Jonathan Cauldwell

04/24/2018 - 22:17Genesis8

Arcade Game Designer v0.6 is a windows x64 utility by Jonathan Cauldwell to write games for Timex/Next, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, without any knowing of programmation. It also exist directly on these platforms.

There is a forum about AGD.

Source : CPCWiki

Categories : development - game

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An Amstrad CPC ROM board interface with DMA

04/22/2018 - 11:40Genesis8

Doragasu started a project in January 2017 about a ROM board interface with DMA transfert. The project is now a reality :

  • it can play digital audio with approximately 0% CPU overhead. The limits are the bits per sample ( 8 ) and the maximum sample length (64 KiB). Sampling rate can be configured on the fly, and ranges from 3906 Hz to 50 kHz (and beyond)
  • it can can transfer data from external ROM to internal CPC RAM at 1 byte per microsecond. While doing DMA the Z80 is stopped, but this is much faster than doing the copy using software routines

Source : CPCWiki

Category : hardware

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iMPdos Public Edition v1.17 for the X-Mass mass storage card by AST/iMPACT

04/19/2018 - 20:24Genesis8

iMPdos Public Edition v1.17 by AST/iMPACT is available, a ROM for using the X-Mass extension card made by Toto. It must be installed as ROM 1 to 6, before the ROM 7 ! When the ROM is installed, iMPdos detects the X-Mass and format it. Dont forget to use the |hlp command for documentation.

Source : CPCWiki

Categories : demo - utility

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The Great Escape and Elf available on Steam for PC by Piko Interactive

04/15/2018 - 20:43Genesis8

Piko Interactive just released on Steam nine games including the Great Escape (Ocean Software in 1986) and Elf which was released two years ago on Amstrad CPC. Actual prices will be valid only for the first week.

Source : Twitter

Category : game

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Kilobyte Magazine issue 1 of 2018 to read online (or PDF)

04/15/2018 - 16:25Genesis8

The first issue of 2018 of the Kilobyte Magazine is available online. It's about 8bit computers, without Amstrad CPC specific content. You can also download the PDF version on Google Drive.

Source : Twitter

Category : fanzine, newspaper

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JavaCPC Desktop v2.9.6b an Amstrad CPC(+) emulator in java by Markus Hohmann (Devilmarkus)

04/15/2018 - 16:17Genesis8

A new version of the desktop JavaCPC is available. It's an Amstrad CPC(+) emulator written in Java by Markus Hohmann (DevilMarkus).

Source : CPCRulez

Category : emulator

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Caprice Forever v2018-04, an Amstrad CPC emulator by Frédéric Coste for Windows

04/15/2018 - 16:15Genesis8

Caprice Forever v2018-04 by Frédéric Coste is a modified version of the Caprice emulator (by Ulrich Doewich) for windows.

  • Fix CRTC regression with "Turrican" but involving issues with "iMPdraw"
  • Add Audio Speaker and PlayCity Line OUT or Internal option
  • Add Audio PlayCity invert channels option
  • Fix FDC regression to load "The Real Ghostbusters"
  • Add Graphics explorer and Tile editor
  • Drop ROM file for testing purposes
  • Fix minor bugs

Source : CPCRulez

Category : emulator

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Captain Space Debris, Amiga and Amstrad CPC music mixed

04/10/2018 - 21:55Genesis8

Captain Space Debris is an Amiga original music written by Markus Kaarlonen, which was adapted on Amstrad CPC by BSC for the demo Digital Orgasm by Prodatron. So Vincent GR mixed both of them but even if there is a Youtube video of the mix, he prefers that you listen to the soundcloud version due to audio and video compression.

Source : Youtube

Category : music

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Making off of the Amstrad CPC game Baba's Palace by Rafael Castillo and McKlain

04/09/2018 - 21:29Genesis8

An interesting reading of Baba's Palace by Rafael Castillo and McKlain that I invite you to read.

Baba's Palace for Amstrad CPC

Source : Twitter

Category : game

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Lady Phoenix, a new Amstrad CPC game announced by 4Mhz

04/09/2018 - 20:15Genesis8

4mhz has announced a new Amstrad CPC game : Lady Phoenix (see also IndiedRetroNews). It's a shoot them up game with nice graphics by Sad1942 and music by McKlain on Soundcloud.

Lady Phoenix, an Amstrad CPC game by 4mhz

Source : Twitter

Category : game

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Malasombra, a new Amstrad CPC game announced by 4Mhz

04/09/2018 - 19:58Genesis8

4mhz has announced a new Amstrad CPC game : Malasombra (see also IndiedRetroNews). It's a platform game with graphics by LordFredPixel and music by McKlain on Soundcloud (menu music).

Malasombra, an Amstrad CPC game by 4mhz

Source : Twitter

Category : game

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Operation Alexandra, a new Amstrad CPC game announced by 4Mhz

04/09/2018 - 19:03Genesis8

4mhz has announced a new Amstrad CPC game : Operation Alexandra (see also IndiedRetroNews). It's a platform game with nice graphics. The music of Operation Alexandra by McKlain is on Soundcloud.

Operation Alexandra, an Amstrad CPC game by 4mhz

Source : Twitter

Category : game

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